Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.


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It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horri...
ELLEN GREENE
I just finished 'Butter' for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast - Hugh Jackman, O...
ASHLEY GREENE
When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the f...
BRIAN GREENE
Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confus...
BRIAN GREENE
Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.
BRIAN GREENE
I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything n...
ASHLEY GREENE
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they p...
GRAHAM GREENE
Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of h...
ELLEN GREENE
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
GRAHAM GREENE
I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experi...
BRIAN GREENE
In California, I do like to just chill out and go to the beach, but I love the energy here. I feel v...
ASHLEY GREENE
I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich'...
ASHLEY GREENE
I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like...
ASHLEY GREENE
I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just...
BRIAN GREENE
...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE
I wouldn't say it's pressure it's more like a controlled nervousness. We've had a good season so far...
ANDY GREENE
Basically, they're all really good teams - you're talking about the 16 best teams in the country. Th...
ANDY GREENE
It's been electric here (at Goggin) all season, and we expect it to be the same way this weekend. We...
ANDY GREENE
I wouldn't say it's pressure — it's more like a controlled nervousn...
ANDY GREENE
Caruso played well tonight, as he always seems to do against us.
ANDY GREENE
I don't think it has quite sunk in yet, but this is definitely a dream come true.
ANDY GREENE
I don't think it has quite sunk in yet, but it is definitely a dream come true. I am looking forward...
ANDY GREENE
Innocence is a kind of insanity
GRAHAM GREENE
He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the ind...
GRAHAM GREENE
My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to ...
JOE GREENE
It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothi...
GRAHAM GREENE
Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE
The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for math...
GRAHAM GREENE
I'll spend whatever it takes to get my message out and to be competitive with these career polit...
JEFF GREENE
I like lots of career politicians; I'm not against all career politicians.
JEFF GREENE
Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relat...
ASHLEY GREENE
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extrao...
BRIAN GREENE
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually havi...
BRIAN GREENE
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians ...
BRIAN GREENE
String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from t...
BRIAN GREENE
In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, ...
BRIAN GREENE
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
GRAHAM GREENE
As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we k...
JOE GREENE
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs...
GRAHAM GREENE
Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or ha...
JOE GREENE
I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to car...
NANCY GREENE
I work with a charity called Donate My Dress. It's got chapters all over the country where you c...
ASHLEY GREENE